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Although the crashkernel area is reserved, on architectures like PowerPC, it is possible for the crashkernel reserved area to contain components like RTAS, TCE, OPAL, etc. To avoid placing kexec segments over these components, PowerPC has its own set of APIs to locate holes in the crashkernel reserved area. Add an arch hook in the generic locate mem hole APIs so that architectures can handle such special regions in the crashkernel area while locating memory holes for kexec segments using generic APIs. With this, a lot of redundant arch-specific code can be removed, as it performs the exact same job as the generic APIs. To keep the generic and arch-specific changes separate, the changes related to moving PowerPC to use the generic APIs and the removal of PowerPC-specific APIs for memory hole allocation are done in a subsequent patch titled "powerpc/crash: Use generic APIs to locate memory hole for kdump. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250131113830.925179-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.